Substitute light for automobile-lanterns.



W. 0. BLUNDON & V. H. ESCH- SUBSTITUTE LIGHT FOR AUTOMOBILE LANTEBNS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM G. BLUNDON AND VICTOR H. ESCH, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OFCOLUMBIA.

SUBSTITUTE LIGHT FOR AUTOMOBILE-LANTERNS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 4, 1911.

tion is to provide a simple and inexpensive article of manufacture forthis purpose.

A further object of our invention is to provide an article which may bequickly adjusted and held firmly in place and which supplies anefficient light within the automobile lantern when the supply ofilluminating gas fails, as quite frequently happens.

With these objects in view, our invention is set forth in thespecification and claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings,in which Figure 1 is a plan view of our device, and Fig. 2 is asectional view thereof, illustrating an additional candle socket placedupon the drip pan.

Referring to the drawings, 1 .is a drip pan into which is fixed thecandle socket 2; attached to the bottom of the said drip pan are thespring fingers 3-3 and between these spring fingers the angular supportI is fixed to the drip pan. From the vertical face of the angularsupport 4 the spring jaws 5-5 project rearwardly and are provided with aclamp and screw 6.

The operation of the device follows: When, on account of the lack of gassupply for the automobile lantern, it is necessary to have other meansof illumination for the search light, the device above referred to maybe placed in the lantern by simply slipping the spring jaws over the gasjet and giving a downward pressure while clamping them tightly to saidjet. This will press the spring fingers against the floor of the lanternand the upward pressure exerted thereby will, in connection with the nowimmovable spring jaws, hold the device firmly in place and prevent alldisplacement by jarring while going over rough roads or the like.

While we have described and illustrated our invention as a lamp having acandle socket therein, it is obvious that any number of candle socketsmight be placed upon the drip pan and also that the drip pan might be ofany shape other than the one shown, without departing from the spirit ofour invention.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire toobtain by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. In a substitute light for automobile lanterns, a removable lightbracket, clamping means adapted to engage a gas jet in an automobilelantern and spring fingers attached to said light bracket and adapted totouch the fioor of an automobile lantern at points, thereby exertingupward pressure which, acting against the immovable clamping means,holds the light bracket steady, substantially as described.

2. In a substitute light for automobile lanterns, a removable light,bracket composed of a drip pan having a candle socket therein, curvedresilient fingers attached to the bottom of said drip pan, an angularsupport fixed to said drip pan, spring jaws provided with locking means,extending from the vertical face of said angular support and adapted toimmovably engage a gas jet of an automobile lantern and to coact withsaid spring fingers to hold the removable light bracket in place firmly,substantially as described.

3. In a substitute light for automobile lanterns, a removablecandle-light bracket composed of a drip pan having a candle sockettherein, spring fingers attached to said drip pan and adapted to pressagainst the floor of an automobile lantern, an angu- Copies of thispatent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing theCommissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

